-*- outline -*- These notes intend to help people working on the CVS versions of Bison. * Requirements Only the sources are installed in the CVS repository (to ease the maintenance, merges etc.), therefore you will have to get the latest stable versions of the maintainer tools we depend upon, including: - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/> - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/> - Flex <http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/> - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/> - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/> - Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/> - Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/> As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available). Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if Valgrind supports your architecture. Bison is written using Bison grammars, so there are bootstrapping issues. The bootstrap script attempts to discover when the C code generated from the grammars is out of date, and to bootstrap with an out-of-date version of the C code, but the process is not foolproof. Also, you may run into similar problems yourself if you modify Bison. Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful, later, a plain `cvs update -P & make' should be sufficient. * First CVS checkout Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out Bison from CVS. For the records, you will find all the relevant information on: http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=56 The next step is asking the installation of all the missing files: $ ./bootstrap And there you are! Just $ ./configure && make && make check At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy, and the CVS master copy: $ cvs diff should output no difference. Enjoy! ----- Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Bison. GNU Bison is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Bison is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Bison; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.